Top 300 Gertrude Stein Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “We are always the same age inside.”

— Gertrude Stein

2. “There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.”

— Gertrude Stein

3. “When you get there, there isn’t any there there.”

— Gertrude Stein

4. “To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.”

— Gertrude Stein

5. “You are all a lost generation.”

— Gertrude Stein

6. “Forget grammar and think about potatoes.”

— Gertrude Stein

7. “Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.”

— Gertrude Stein

8. “You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.”

— Gertrude Stein

9. “There is no there there.”

— Gertrude Stein

10. “Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.”

— Gertrude Stein

11. “In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.”

— Gertrude Stein

12. “Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.”

— Gertrude Stein

13. “Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”

— Gertrude Stein

14. “It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.”

— Gertrude Stein

15. “I am I because my little dog knows me.”

— Gertrude Stein

16. “You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!”

— Gertrude Stein

17. “One must dare to be happy.”

— Gertrude Stein

18. “Once upon a time the world was round, and you could go on it around and around.”

— Gertrude Stein

19. “The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.”

— Gertrude Stein

20. “Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.”

— Gertrude Stein

21. “Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.”

— Gertrude Stein

22. “I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.”

— Gertrude Stein

23. “Romance is everything.”

— Gertrude Stein

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24. “America is my country and Paris is my hometown.”

— Gertrude Stein

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25. “If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.”

— Gertrude Stein

26. “When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.”

— Gertrude Stein

27. “Money is always there but the pockets change.”

— Gertrude Stein

28. “A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.”

— Gertrude Stein

29. “August is a month when if it is hot weather it is really very hot.”

— Gertrude Stein

30. “The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.”

— Gertrude Stein

31. “One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.”

— Gertrude Stein

32. “Every man is the maker of his own fortune.”

— Gertrude Stein

33. “What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.”

— Gertrude Stein

34. “I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.”

— Gertrude Stein

35. “Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.”

— Gertrude Stein

36. “To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.”

— Gertrude Stein

37. “Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.”

— Gertrude Stein

38. “Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.”

— Gertrude Stein

39. “Nothing has happened today except kindness.”

— Gertrude Stein

40. “It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.”

— Gertrude Stein

41. “The artist works by locating the world in himself.”

— Gertrude Stein

42. “I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.”

— Gertrude Stein

43. “Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.”

— Gertrude Stein

44. “Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.”

— Gertrude Stein

45. “I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.”

— Gertrude Stein

46. “If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.”

— Gertrude Stein

47. “If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.”

— Gertrude Stein

48. “Very likely education does not make very much difference.”

— Gertrude Stein

49. “Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.”

— Gertrude Stein

50. “A FEATHER. A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.”

— Gertrude Stein